App

I just spent 3 hours looking at and downloading apps onto my phone. how much did I just change the world or make it a better place? what have you done in the last 3 hours that absolutely changes this world and fulfills your purpose for being created? were we created to waste 3 hours? did I actually waste 3 hours?

Are you ready?

The last time you walked into church what was your life like the hour before you sat down? Were kids screaming? Were you arguing with your spouse? Were you upset with a co-worker/boss? Were you scrambling to get emails sent off before church started? Were you frustrated that church was going to take up an hour and half of your busy schedule? Or were you praying that you would be ready for what God was going to speak into your life that day? What is your life like on most days? Are you ready for the amazing things that God has for you each day? Are you truly prepared, do you spend a quick second in the morning to focus, to breathe, and to open yourself up to the possibility that God may change your life THIS day or that God may use YOU to change someone else's life? So I ask again, are you ready?

Big

Are you thinking big enough? Do you find yourself saying, "that can't happen, I don't know enough, I'm not smart enough, I don't have enough money, I don't think I can handle that, I am not sure that will work" ? We have a million phrases/reasons/excuses as to why something won't work, but what would happen in our lives if we just said, "Lets try" Is God big enough in your life to do the impossible? Even when it looks like it won't work do you truly believe God is big enough to handle everything? Are YOU thinking BIG ENOUGH?

Pray

Before Jesus chose his twelve apostles he went away for the night and prayed. Before Jesus was crucified he went away and prayed. Jesus was in the habit of praying intensly before major events happened in his life. Maybe we should have that same habit each day so that anything that comes our way, major or minor, we will be able to handle exactly how God wants us to handle it. Just a thought..................

Selfish

I have two miniature dachshunds as pets, they are the craziest two dogs I have ever seen, but they are good dogs. They always get fed together, but for whatever reason, when I fed them this morning only one was there. So he started to eat his food as I continued on with my morning, but when I looked down he had finished his bowl and just casually moved over to his brother's bowl and started to eat that food as well! I rushed over and stopped him and said, "Hey, thats not your food!" I started to think, "Are we so selfish sometimes that we don't even think what we are taking or doing, and we automatically think we are owed everything?" I continued on with my morning and chuckled at my dogs, we can't be THAT selfish can we? 10 minutes later my wife asked me where all the eggs were because she was planning on having one for breakfast. I had eaten all of what was left and I never asked her if she wanted some or what she was planning on having for breakfast............hmmmmm

Too Busy

I was running late to work this morning and I didn't get a cup of coffee, so my wife and I quickly stopped at a gas station to grab a cup quickly and as I was getting back into my car an elderly man stopped me and asked me for directions. I gave him directions quickly, checking my watch, and went to get into the car, but he continued to clarify the directions and ask me if I was late. I was getting a little a frustrated because I wanted to be at work already when it hit me, this is what it is all about, relationships. Jesus was ALL about relationships. He was never too busy, he was never in a hurry to leave a conversation, and he was always there in the moment, not worried about what he was missing or what he was "late" for. I have been preoccupied many times in a conversation, and I have to wonder, if its all about relationships and having those conversations shouldn't we be MOST concerned with the conversation we are having right now and not the one we will have later that day or tomorrow? Can we change the world forever by just being concerned with our conversation or relationship right now?

Forgive

How different would our world be and how different would WE be if we truly learned to forgive? I'm not talking about accepting someone's apology for stepping on your toes, no, I am talking about true life changing forgiveness! In the bible, Joseph was sold into slavery by his own brothers and then thrown into prison for many years for a crime he didn't commit!! And at the end of it all, when he was in charge of all the food distribution in the land and his brothers came to him, his response is, "It was not you who sent me here, but God" This was his chance to pay back his brothers for all that they had done to him and instead he looks to God and the amazing work He has done through him! Who do you need to forgive today just like Joseph forgave his brothers?